Drinking doll



Aprifi I18, 195@ 1. COMM DRINKING DOLL Filed March 24, 1949 INVENTOR.

Patented Apr. 18, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DRINKING DOLL Irwin Cohn, Leominster, Mass.

Application March 24, 1949, Serial No. 83,149

2 Claims. (Cl. 46-115) The object of the present invention is to provide a plastic doll formed in two primary halves and representing a child holding a bottle, the bottle containing a material resembling the appearance of milk, in combination with a concealed container in which the said material flows when the doll is tilted or laid upon its back.

The specific object of the invention is to improve upon the structur of my Patent No. 1,682,- 832 of September 4, 1928, to provide the concealed chamber as two sectional elements, each integral with one half of the doll and joined in the action of joining the said halves of the doll, together with a form of the bottle which enables it to be die-pressed and very quickly applied to the doll body. An important further result is that the otherwise fragile body of the doll is re-inforced from front to back by the transversely extending concealed container.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing an embodiment of the invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevation partly broken away;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the doll is recumbent position; and

Figure 4 is a transverse section on the line 4-4, Fig. 2; and

Figure 5 is a transvers section on the line 55, Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings and particularly Figs. 2 and 3, it will be seen that the molded plastic doll therein shown is formed in two halves, to wit, a front half I and a rear half 2, joined along a line which extends longitudinally and is indicated at 3. The front section of the doll under the head portion is formed with an opening in register with an inwardly extended tube 4. The rear section 2 is formed with a cup-shaped member 5 having a greater wall thickness than the tube 3. Thus, when the meeting edges of the two sections of the doll are covered with adhesive, or, when the plastic material may be softened with solvent, by a suitable solvent, and the two halves pressed together, the tube 4 and cup 5 will be cemented together simultaneously with the cementing along the lines 3 at the opposite sides of the doll. Thereupon the structure may be completed as follows:

After a granular material has been placed in the concealed container provided by the tube 4 and cup 5, a U-shaped stamping, representing a bottle and nipple, as indicated at 6, has its edges coated with suitable adhesive or plastic solvent and is pressed in position. Being thus secured to body member I, its inner area will be closed by the wall or body member I except at the aperture in said body member which lies in registration with tube 4. The member 6 will be of transparent plastic so that when the elements are thus secured together and the doll is tilted forwardly the substance resembling milk, which may be a white powder, will flow downwardly into the member 6, and when the doll is tilted backwardly toward or at the position of Fig. 3, the granular material will return to the concealed container. It will also be noted that th wall of the front doll section opposite member 6 is outwardly deformed to provide a projecting rib I to reduce the capacity of the simulated bottle and to give greater resistance to the free flow of the milksimulating granular material, which retards pack- It will be understood that various modifications may be made in the form and arrangement of the elements constituting the embodiment illustrated and described without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows: 1. A plastic doll comprising two longitudinally Joined sections composed of a front section and a rear section, the rear section being integrally formed with an internally projecting cup and the front section being formed with an internally projecting tube, the wall of the front section being formed with an aperture communicating with said tube, the tube and cup being abutted and terminating at the jointure line between the front and rear sections, said sections being cemented together at said jointure line, a bottle-simulation composed of a transparent generally U-shaped member cemented to the exposed wall of the front section and outwardly enclosing the opening in said front section and a flowable milksimulating material within said tube and cup and adapted to flow in and out of the bottle simulation as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A plastic doll constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which a longitudinal area of the wall of the front section is outwardly projected to form a rib enclosed by the bottle-simulation, as and for the purpose set forth.

IRWIN COHN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,595,840 Wallach Aug. 10, 1926 1,616,845 Denivelle Feb. 8, 1927 1,682,832 Cohn Sept. 4, 1928 1,730,854 Lloyd Oct. 8, 1929 2,315,240 Ashenberg et a1. Mar. 30, 1943 

